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3 Simple Ways We Increased Our Email List by 843%

I love to experiement. As a blogger, you should never lose the joy of trying new things. Sure there needs to be a balance. If something is working for you, don’t go and ruin it. Still, I think we often fell into the trap of:

“Doing the same old thing and expecting a different result.”

Six months ago we were not extremely happy with how many people we were adding to our email list. In June of last year we only added 39 people to our list. Granted, our blog was only a few months old at the time, but we still felt like we were missing the boat.

We finally started making some changes about 6 months ago and we have been really pleased with the results. In January alone we added 368 (12 a day on average) email subscribers, which was a 843% increase from just a few months earlier.

Our blog traffic has consistently grown but not to the same ratio of subscribers to visits. Here is a breakdown of what we did to significantly increase our email subscriber rate.

3 Simple Ways We Increased Our Email List by 843%

1. We gave away a Free Ebook & Video Series for signing up. Create something of value that your audience may enjoy. Give your best stuff and hold nothing back. We still get emails and comments about how beneficial the Simple Blog Business Plan is for bloggers. What is something of high value that you can offer to your audience?

2. We created a Subscriber Squeeze Page on our Home Page. This was more of a bold move than anything. We created a squeeze page on our main domain. If someone goes directly to BloggingYourPassion.com they are presented with an offer to sign up to our email list in exchange for the Simple Blog Business Plan. It may or may not work for you, but this has helped us in a big way.

3. We added a subscribe box at the bottom of every post. One of the more valuable spots on your blog is at the end of every article. Visitors are wondering what to do next. If you provided a really great article and have something free to offer them, they will gladly enter their email address for it.

Maybe pulling all three of these tasks at once is a bit much for you. Choose one and start from there. I have personally seen many bloggers increase their subscribe rate by just offering something for free. That might be a good starting place for you.

Jonathan has been blogging since 2009 and is still in awe that the Creator of the Universe desires to have a relationship with him. His passions include spending time with his kids, reading, March Madness, surprise get-a-way trips with his wife, and watching funny YouTube videos.

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Hey, thanks for the article. This one seems to be very conventional yet effective tools to increase subscription list. I was wondering, the eBooks that you provided, was it originally Intellectual property or someone elses?

BloggingYourPassion

I have always only given out ebooks or PDF reports that I wrote myself. Thanks!

http://www.ferventfoodie.com/ Mary

Is there a plugin you recommend using to get the email subscription box to show up at the end of each post?

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